Sunday, April 26, 2015

Volgende maand ga ik huisruilen in Nieuw-Zeeland. Natuurlijk heb ik al wat wolwinkels opgezocht, en er is ook een wolfestival. Next month I am home exchanging in New-Zealand. I have already looked into interesting yarn shops, and there is also a woolfest in Auckland when I am there.

Het volgende paar in het Op-Art sokkenboek is 'Anni', vernoemd naar textielkunstenares Anni Albers. Het ontwerp zelf is geïnspireerd op haar werk 'gele meander'. The next pair of socks in the Op-Art book is called Anni, named after textile artist Anni Albers. The pattern is inspired by her work 'Yellow Meander'.Anni Albers was
born in 1899 and is one of the best known textile artists of the 20th
Century. In 1922 she attended the Bauhaus as a student where she later
met and married Josef Albers. After its closure in 1933, they moved to
Black Mountain College where she taught until 1949.In the 1940's Anni Albers' weavings were shown throughout the US and
she published many articles on textiles and design, culminating in her
1949 show at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The first of its kind
for a textile artist at MoMA, the exhibition toured the US from 1951
until 1953, establishing Albers as the most famous weaver of the day.

Een meander bestaat uit een doorlopende lijn die vorm aanneemt in een zich herhalend motief. Het kan gezien worden als een klein labyrinth.A meander is a design formed by a continuous line that’s shaped into a
repeated motif. It can be seen as a small labyrinth.

I have knit these in solid gray. Whenever a sock in the book is suitable for a men's sock, I do them in a neutral color. DS is always in need of socks, and there are still collegues leaving. But I do love them in sunny yellow, so I might knit these again some day.

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Het moeilijkste was om de mouw goed in de armopening genaaid te krijgen. Wie goed kijkt ziet nog een foutje.I struggled a bit to get the sleeves into the (wide) armholes, if you look carefully, you can still see an error.